It’s bollocks isn’t it, the Burnley compo was covered months ago by the yanks putting the money in. It’s excluded from SCR. If we needed to plug it it’s cos the yanks wanted their 40 mil back in the short term, over prioritising the good of the club and risking its future instead.

The owners put £38m in July 2026 to cover the Burnley payment. I've no idea if this was in escrow from the takeover.

But.... they took out a dividend of £44m in December 2025 (the money was for selling the womens club).

The squad cost ratio is not something the PL plucked out of their arse - it was voted on by the clubs 14-6.
Once its settled in, it means clubs will broadly be profitable which is all the US owners want.

The fines for exceeding 85% will go into a pot to be shared by the other teams, so the like of Villa, Newcastle are us trying to compete risk sudsidising Man United and the shite.

But we voted for it !

We owe Burnley 40m dont we?

Might be for fees owed from previous years still and we hadn’t sold anyone for a while.

I don’t think that would have been an issue for any signings as they can be spread over 5 years.

That’ll be the Burnley payment shirly?

The other one is the £65million - Ornstein said the Ndiaye deal “had to be done at that price point”